Pushing Photoshop Sliders

I used the Nik Vivenza plugin and then Filter > Noise > Reduce Noise with the noise slider pushed all the way across to the max and the details slider at its minimum. After several passes, the images starts to take on a life of its own.

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And here’s a closeup showing what I mean about the effect of using the noise reduction tool several times.